Omaha daily bee., 1887-01-14
THE Y. NJ. G. A. BUILDING.
An Interesting Meeting Held Wedncs-
day Afternoon.

The Y. Nj. T.. A. has enlisted the in
tercst of & number of the leading bust
ness men of the city in the cause of their
new building. To consider this subject
Il meeting of the committees was held in
the parlors of the Nebraska National bank
Wednesday afternoon. There were pres.
ent of the advisory board: Messrs.
George Hoagland, ii. w. Yates, Herman
Kountze, and A. j. Poppleton. Of the
building committee, there We're present:
Mcssrs. Burnham. Fleming, Himcbaugh,
Ensign, and McndclSsohn a. LoWrie, the
architects.
Mr.. Burnham, chairman, called the
meeting to order, and stated the object of
extent the association ought to go for
ward in this plan rs to what kind of a
building is to be erected and how much
money is to be put in It, and also to deter
mine whether plain building should be
put up or building of the characteristic
nature for that purpose should be erected.
In justice to the city there ought to be
something better than square, PLAIN
brick block, in which you would reduce
the cost to n minimum. Something which
would be more attractive. Mr. Kount2c
inquired how much better would in at
tractive building like that serve the pur-
poses of the association than Il palmer
building. Mr.. Burnham replied that it
would have some effect upon the stores,
and would bring a much larger rental
Mr.. Kountze said: Il never hesitate in
expressing my opinion. My opinion is,
that il Won Id be the right thing 10 build
a building in the first place that is thor
oughly adapted to the uses of the asso-
citation. The next place is to make the
building, aside from the portion that is
necessary, after having made ample proyi-
sion Tor the associations purposes, then
make the remainder of the building rs re-
muneratlve as possible, and do that in a
more simple style of architecture and one
that could be maintained at the lowest
possible cost"
Mr. Poppleton said; "The question that
we want to state promptly is not the
style OF architecture, but the difference
between the $50, 0OO and the $4,000 build
ing, whether you build $4,000 building
with limited capacity, or whether You
build S15, 900 building with larger capa-
city, and thus derive additional rentals
IL seems To me that the ground jusiiiics
that you borrow the necessary and ade-
quate amount, and IT is imhatcrial
whether you borrow so 900 or $50, 900 at
reasonable interest,
Mr. Kountze asked how many floors
the association needed, which was an.
swered by Mr.. LOwrie's explaining the
plan to the committees.
Mr.. Kountze asked what the revenue
of the building would be, which was an
swercd by Mr.. Himobaugh in that it
would not exceed $40, 600.
Mr.. Fleming said that the revenue Will
be so much that the ASSOCIATION will be
IN position which will enable it TO clear
all the expenses.
Mr.. Ensign SAID; II have visited the
association buildings in New York and
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Syracuse and
Boston, and they have, IN. connection
with their gymnusums and bath rooms,
from eight to ten and fifteen hundred
lockers, These BRING from So TO - each
annually. 1 have found by cQnyrrsng
with the young men Of this city a very
general desire TO avail themselves of the
opportunities which our new building
will offer, Should we have u thousand